Daily Beast hires Sommer to cover tech and digital culture

Will Sommer

The Hill campaign editor Will Sommer has been hired by The Daily Beast to cover tech and digital culture.

He will start his new job in mid-June and remain at The Hill, where he has worked since December 2016, for another week.

Sommer is best known for his newsletter Right Richter about conservative media. Before The Hill, he was a staff writer, senior editor and politics editor for Washington City Paper. He also was a local editor for Patch in Kingstowne, Virginia.

He studied international politics at Georgetown University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.